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  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  its right hand it holds a diploma that transforms into a telescope ... about this ring: The diploma-telescope on the bezel The balance

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  moment, I wear mine as an alumna. Then we started receiving our diplomas ... in elaborate robes, waved at Prof. Bertschinger, accepted my diploma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  when reviewing my app? When scores are sent from the college board to MIT ... of the students pretty much go to state schools if they go to college ... , "In Romania when one applies for college one knows the lowest grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("Mass ... 're going to crossreg than actually do, mostly because MIT's offerings in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  Melissa offered him with gratitude. He took two sips and sputtered, “What if ... diploma—” “Gee thanks,” she said, rolling her eyes. “And well, you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer calculus, people whose schools didn't offer physics...obviously the people ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your school that you can take on yourself; classes offered at local colleges or ... school that offered only 4 AP classes. My high scool was just a regular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  .  Unfortunately, that seems unlikely to be the case. Last month, the College Board ... colleges show flexibility with their normal admissions requirements; last ... concluded that our commitment to conducting college admissions in the public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  it. More than a decade (and a graduate degree in media studies from MIT ... of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  , NPHC & NALFO college chapters are intercollegiate meaning; the ... organization offered a snapshot of their own, unique chapters below. For those ... society offered minorities “narrowly circumscribed opportunity’, Alpha Phi

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... breaktime rolled around, alums coming back from college would often visit classrooms and answer questions from us high schoolers, nervous about college

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... a huge rowing tournament. Each college has several men's and women's boats participating and there are about 30 colleges, so many, many boats

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  from my alma mater Morehouse College. FYI - That is my shoe on the ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH ... preperations, and on top of ALL of THAT, you are applying to college. Whewww

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  blah.) Since I know a lot of people will be needing to make a college ... State's honors college (+ full tuition/room/board scholarship). I was ... randomized dorm room and expected to magically acclimate to college life, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  superior culture for learning. These three branches are the colleges, which ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... their college of choice. Admissions are tough and Cambridge engineers are

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  academically. AP classes were abundant - the school offered somewhere around 30 ... supposed to be college-level classes, if you'll remember waay back to going ... creaking bones as I continue my tale.) "AP classes ARE college classes," my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  college admissions process is spooky and mystical, presided over by ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC ... international admissions officers and college guidance counselors from schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  decline our offer of admission). Getting hungry, fruitlessly searching for ... credit for courses taken at a local college; you can read about the ... , MIT has resources for high-level private music lessons, offered through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  adventure, but then again, it's college, am I supposed to expect anything else ... do have a couple offers already so that's exciting. It'll be pretty tough deciding which one I'd like. The allure of one offer is that their

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... AMC and NSLI-Y were the be-all and end-all to my college acceptance, and ... into a good college, but I was so wholly impacted by them that it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020